NAME
Jifty -- Just Do It
DESCRIPTION
Yet another web framework.
What's cool about Jifty? (Buzzwords)
DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)
Jifty tries not to make you say things more than once.
Full-stack
Out of the proverbial box, Jifty comes with one way to do everything
you should need to do: One database mapper, one templating system,
one web services layer, one AJAX toolkit, one set of handlers for
standalone or FastCGI servers. We work hard to make all the bits
play well together, so you don't have to.
Continuations
With Jifty, it's easy to let the user go off and do something else,
like fill out a wizard, look something up in the help system or go
twiddle their preferences and come right back to where they were.
Form-based dispatch
This is one of the things that Jifty does that we've not seen
anywhere else. Jifty owns your form rendering and processing. This
means you never need to write form handling logic. All you say is "I
want an input for this argument here" and Jifty takes care of the
rest. (Even autocomplete and validation)
A Pony
Jifty is the only web application framework that comes with a pony.
Introduction
If this is your first time using Jifty, Jifty::Manual::Tutorial is
probably a better place to start.
METHODS
new PARAMHASH
This class method instantiates a new "Jifty" object. This object deals
with configuration files, logging and database handles for the system.
Most of the time, the server will call this for you to set up your
"Jifty" object. If you are writing command-line programs htat want to
use your libraries (as opposed to web services) you will need to call
this yourself.
See Jifty::Config for details on how to configure your Jifty
application.
Arguments
no_handle
If this is set to true, Jifty will not create a Jifty::Handle and
connect to a database. Only use this if you're about to drop the
database or do something extreme like that; most of Jifty expects
the handle to exist. Defaults to false.
config
An accessor for the Jifty::Config object that stores the configuration
for the Jifty application.
logger
An accessor for our Jifty::Logger object for the application.
handle
An accessor for the Jifty::Handle object that stores the database handle
for the application.
web
An accessor for the Jifty::Web object that the web interface uses.
LICENSE
Jifty is Copyright 2005 Best Practical Solutions, LLC. Jifty is
distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
Jesse Vincent, Alex Vandiver and David Glasser.